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“He who says that there is no such thing as an honest man is himself a knave.”
— George Berkeley, as quoted in Ladies Home Journal Vol. 97, No. 8 (August 1960).
“The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint.”
— Johann Kaspar Lavater, as quoted in Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1862) edited by Henry Southgate, p. 290.
“Keep your eyes open if you deal with him. — Why, isn't he honest? — Thomasus? Sure he's honest. You just have to watch him, that's all.”
— L Sprague de Camp, Lest Darkness Fall.
“A creature that cannot grasp the mutual exclusiveness of A and not A has no difficulty in lying; more than that, such a creature has not even any consciousness of lying, being without a standard of truth.”
— Otto Weininger, Sex and Character (1906), p. 150.
“Omnia quæ vindicaris in altero, tibi ipsi vehementer fugienda sunt.”
— Everything that thou reprovest in another, thou must most carefully avoid in thyself.
“Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.”
— George Washington, speech to the Constitutional Convention (1787).

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